Comcast is the largest broadcasting and cable company in the world by revenue. It is the largest cable company and home Internet service provider in the United States, and the nation’s third largest home telephone service provider. As the owner of the international media company NBCUniversal, Comcast is a producer of feature films and television programs intended for theatrical exhibition and over-the-air and cable television broadcast. Comcast also operates three cable channels (E! Entertainment Television, the Golf Channel, and NBCSN), and over-the-air national broadcast network channels (NBC and Telemundo), the film production studio Universal Pictures, and Universal Parks & Resorts. Comcast also has significant holding in digital distribution (ThePlatform). In 2014 the company reached an agreement to acquire 100% of Time Warner Cable.
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